MGERB participated in YEPP seminar dedicated to university student's mobility

6/12/2010

From the 2nd to the 5th of December Pavel Hristov – Regional Coordinator of MGERB Varna and Todor Petrov from MGERB Lovech took part in a seminar of YEPP (the Youth Organisation of the European People’s Party) in Skopje, Macedonia, hosted by the Youth Union of VMRO-DPMNE on the topic of: “Youth educational programs – a factor for university student mobility”.

The representatives of MGERB had the opportunity to participate in a series of discussions with representatives of the executive and legislative government in Macedonia, among which were Nikola Gruevski – Prime Minister of Macedonia, Trajko Veljanovski – Speaker of the Parliament, Nikola Todorov – Minister of Education, as well as other members of the cabinet and members of parliament from the Macedonian parliament. Among the main topics of discussion were the good practices from the education reform in Macedonia, among which: investments in new universities, new laboratories (for which were given over 60 million euro), as well as a level of 4.7% from the GDP determined for education and science.

During the seminar there was a meeting of the Council of YEPP, during which the European youth organisation confirmed the readiness for MGERB to become a full member of YEPP during the next congress in Berlin.During the meeting of the council were adopted several resolutions targeted towards economical management, simultaneous with the package of measures for economical management, discussed on European level, precisely: “Appeal for financial discipline in the EU”, “Resolution for economical integration of southeastern Europe” and others.